Julie Shah, Sandy Alexandre receive campus houseteam appointments

The Sidney Pacific graduate and East Campus undergraduate communities have a new head of house and associate head of house, respectively. Julie Shah ’04 SM ’06, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics and head of the Interactive Robotics Group in the Computer and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has been appointed head of house for Sydney Pacific (SP) after serving with her husband, Neel, as associate housemasters since 2013. Julie holds bachelor’s (2004) and master’s (2006) degrees from MIT, she and completed her PhD in 2011. Neel is a physician, a graduate of Brown University and Harvard University, and is a practicing obstetrician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a professor at Harvard Medical School. The Shahs take on their new role after previous housemasters Andreas Schultz and Berit Johannes…